Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Myospalax myospalax (Laxmann, 1773) . Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm , 34:134 . TYPE LOCALITY: Russia , Altai Krai , 100 km SE of Barnaul, Sommaren, near Paniusheva on Alei River . DISTRIBUTION: Russia and Kazakhstan (entire N region of Cisaltai plain and foothills as well as the W and C Altai). SYNONYMS: incertus , komurai , laxmanni , tarbagataicus. COMMENTS: Member of monophyletic myospalax species-group, which includes living M. epsilanus , M. aspalax , and the Pliocene and Pleistocene M. youngi and M. pseudarmandi ( Lawrence, 1991 ) .